Publish a governed outward representation

Core meaning

Capability purpose: Establish an auditable public presence transition without converting private canonical information into public truth by implication.
Meaningful outcome: A representation is published, republished, rejected, unpublished, or archived with a stable outward identity, current policy state, provenance, and revision history.
Boundaries — includes: publication eligibility, owner authority, public locator, version, visibility state, access-policy reference, discovery state, usage-rights state, activation, revision, unpublishing, archival, and audit evidence.
Boundaries — excludes: preparing or redacting source content, controlled private sharing, domain registration, search optimization work, and mutating the canonical private source.
Terms and concepts: publication makes a separate representation publicly reachable. Public reachability and public discoverability remain different claims.

Actor: The owner or an explicitly authorized publishing actor.
Command / intent: Publish, revise, republish, unpublish, or archive an eligible representation.
Current state: The representation, source provenance, sensitivity, current exposure state, policy axes, public locator, and action authority can be determined.
Policies / invariants: Publication is an external action; guarded publication requires request-scoped approval or applicable standing authority; the private source is not implicitly exposed; each public revision and withdrawal is attributable; access, discovery, and rights remain independently governed.
Transition: Validate authority and exposure conditions, bind the publication revision and policy state, change public reachability, and record the outcome.
Result: A reachable public representation with a stable locator, a withdrawn or archived revision, or a reasoned rejection.
Events / effects: May update indexes, public listings, caches, notifications, or History according to separate policy and realization behavior.
Unknowns: Universal propagation, cache invalidation, archival, and public-locator reuse rules are not established.

Preparing a representation or setting outward intent must not be represented as publication.
Public access must not silently imply indexing, promotion, reuse, AI training, or redistribution permission.

Require explicit owner review for first publication and material expansion of audience, discovery, or usage rights.

Publication profiles must define how withdrawals propagate to external caches, mirrors, archives, and indexes.

Statement	Semantic class	Evidence status	Source / note
Publication is an authorized external transition over a separate outward representation and does not collapse access, discovery, or rights into one state.	rule/invariant	sourced	G01–G03 and G05–G07.